A Review of Workplace Aerosol Sampling Procedures and Their Relevance to the Assessment of Beryllium Exposures

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• Personal Author:
  Harper M
• Description:
  Standardized conventions governing the fractions of airborne particles that can penetrate the human head airways, the thoracic airways and the alveolar spaces have been internationally (although not universally) adopted. Several agencies involved in setting limit values for occupational exposure concentrations have taken these conventions into account when considering the appropriate standard for specific chemicals, in order to ensure the standards are biologically relevant. A convention is selected based on the characteristic health effects, and forms the basis of measurement against the limiting concentration value. In order to assess exposure for comparison to this metric or any other purposes, it is necessary to choose a sampler whose performance matches the convention, and protocols have been developed and used to test sampler performance. Several aerosol sampling devices are available, nominally at least, for each of the conventions. Some considerations important to the sampling of airborne particles containing beryllium with regard to the sampling conventions, the test protocols and sampler performance are discussed. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Aerosols Air Pollutants, Occupational Beryllium Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Particulate Matter Safety
• Keywords:
  Aerosol-particles Aerosol-sampling Airborne-particles Beryllium-compounds Occupational-exposure Samplers Sampling
• ISSN:
  1464-0325
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 3 ; West Virginia
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  HELD - Health Effects Laboratory Division
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  8
• Issue:
  6
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20030446
• Citation:
  J Environ Monit 2006 Jun; 8(6):598-604
• Contact Point Address:
  Exposure Assessment Branch, Health Effects Laboratory Division, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, 1095 Willowdale Rd., MS-3030, Morgantown, WV 26505, USA
• CAS Registry Number:
  Beryllium (CAS RN 7440-41-7)
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2006
• NORA Priority Area:
  Research Tools and Approaches: Exposure Assessment Methods
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Source Full Name:
  Journal of Environmental Monitoring
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:7671cd9dd7dc905f098e975fd0d21c153468842a54f45b53dab263132343b764f926ad3ac701a51caf89bd0a39d3add6aa6b521983a026590d390d8a02a58c01
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